Richard George Life

Born in Shepherd's Bush, London in 1884, eldest son of Richard Henry Life and Annie Elizabeth. Brother of Charles James and Frederick Life. Attending Wheatley Infants school in 1888, he was commended in Group III in 1891 and mentioned in the Diocesan Inspector's report in 1893. Shop assistant with an address in Eastgate Street, Gloucester in 1911, the year in which he married, in Newton Abbott. Richard G. Life is recorded as having been in the Devonshire Regiment, No. 4401 as a Private, and in the Bedfordshire Regiment with No. 205428. He died in hospital in Devon Central in 1964 aged 80.